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# CNN-Ausschnitt, Rumsfeld wird mit seinen Aussagen zu Massenvernichtungswaffen im Irak konfrontiert.

Was solls...

Sonne

# Firefox Werbeclip. Fantastisch. :)

The day after...

Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.

Linux

Finally, remember to include Linux users in your prayers tonight. As individuals we may not be able to change people's minds, but the Bible teaches that God can make any sinner repent.

# Vim 7.0 beta - die wahrscheinlich letzte Beta vor Vim 7.0 stable ist released worden. Klingt interessant:

• tabbing
• (-matching - emacs hat das seit 20 Jahren?
• kiloweise vim-script Erweiterungen

Amerikaner...

# Jetzt bin ich ein Rolling Stones Fan. Der amerikanische Präsident wäre wohl bei seinem kommenden Besuch in Österreich gerne im Imperial Hotel abgestiegen. Dummerweise hat Mick Jagger die Royal-Suite einige Tage vorher schon gebucht und ließ sich nicht überzeugen, die Suite an den Präsidenten abzutreten. :) Grandios!

Mick Jagger

Mr. Bush

# Physicists Letter to President Bush on "nuclear option", April 17, 2006. Ich weiß nicht ob das ein Fake ist. Für einen Brief, von solch schlauen Leuten, ist er ein wenig kurz... :)
Aber im Ernst, es scheint als wollten sich die Intellektuellen Amerikas vom Image distanzieren, das die USA in der restlichen Welt hat.
Bedenklich stimmt mich nur - es war doch fast immer ein Beginn von Diktatur, wenn die intellektuelle Elite eines Landes beginnt - mehr oder weniger geschlossen - die regierende Schicht zu kritisieren. Wobei ich glaube, meist ging die Geschichte dann so aus: die Regierenden haben die Intellektuellen in Misskredit gebracht, oder gleich umgebracht...

Sonnenschein

The idea was to create a controlled environment in the Stanford halls to simulate a prison. There would be participants recruited to play both the prisoners and the guards, and the experiment would last for two weeks.

No one thought the experiment would have any big problems - the participants were just playing a short game of prison. Yet in less than a week the prisoners were becoming psychologically disturbed, and the guards disturbingly sadistic. There were riots, hunger strikes, and abusive treatment - all in the mock-up jail cells created in the halls of the Stanford psychology department. The study had to be canceled early, leaving one critical question - how could a fake prison situation become real so quickly?

Frühlingsbeginn

Am Salzachufer in Richtung Festung

# The Balance of Risk - mit steigender Sicherheit steigt scheinbar auch die Risikobereitschaft. Extrem ausgedrückt - jede Verbesserung an Sicherheitsmaßnahmen ist mehr oder weniger sinnlos, weil dementsprechend die Risikobereitschaft steigt.

What's happening is a process known as risk compensation. It's a tendency in humans to increase risky behavior proportionately as safeguards are introduced, and it's very common. So common, in fact, as to render predictions of how well any given piece of safety equipment will work almost useless.
[...]
It seems an odd proposition, but Dr. Wilde and his colleagues have assembled an impressive array of data to support it. For instance, a study of Munich taxicab drivers conducted while the taxicab fleet was being changed over to ABS braking systems. The drivers were tracked by observers unaware of which kind of brakes each cab had. Against the expectations of safety experts who recommend ABS brakes as a safety advance, the drivers with ABS brakes actually had more accidents per vehicle mile than those without. The drivers braked more sharply, made tighter turns, drove at higher speeds, and made a number of other adjustments to their driving, all of which more than compensated for their supposedly safer cabs.

Sonnenschein

Ben Jacobsen, a model railroad hobbyist, wrote a bunch of software to let you connect your computer to your model railroad and control trains with it. He chose to not only give the software away for free, but to make the source code available as well, so that the model railroading/hacker community could improve it and customize it to their liking.
And then KAM Industries, maker of commercial software that serves a similar role, tried asserting their 'patent rights' over doing just that.

Am Friedhof

Eingang Komunalfriedhof

Aprilwetter

Die Trauer - ein Sinnbild.

Ostermontag

Blick vom Mönchsberg auf Salzburg.

Blick vom Mönchsberg auf Salzburg.

# Der Heise Newsticker wird 10 Jahre alt. Gratulation.